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FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL TO TEACH AT HAMILTON THIS FALL

A career diplomat who served Presidents
Carter and Reagan as U.S. Ambassador to Israel will rejoin the Hamilton College
faculty this fall as the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International
Affairs.

A cum laude graduate of Yale University with a master's degree in
international relations from The Johns Hopkins University, Lewis was a foreign
service officer for 31 years, retiring in 1985. In his last diplomatic post,
he served for eight years, from 1977 to 1985, as United States Ambassador to
Israel, first appointed by President Carter and then reaffirmed by President
Reagan.

During those years, he was a prominent actor in Arab-Israeli negotiations,
including participation in the 1978 Camp David Conference and subsequent
negotiations which led to peace between Israel and Egypt.

Lewis joined the Clinton Administration as director of the Secretary of
State's Policy Planning Staff in February 1993. He retired for the second time
from the U.S. Government in February 1994. Immediately prior to that
appointment, he had served for more than five years as president and chief
executive officer of the United States Institute of Peace, an independent U.S.
Government agency established by Congress to promote peaceful resolution of
international conflicts.

During his lengthy diplomatic career, Lewis also served as assistant secretary
of state for international organization affairs, as deputy director of the
Policy Planning Staff, as a senior staff member of the National Security
Council, as a member of the United States Agency for International Development
mission to Brazil, as special assistant to the under secretary of state, and in
lengthy assignments in Italy and Afghanistan.

Before assuming the presidency of the U.S. Institute of Peace on Nov. 1, 1987,
he was diplomat-in-residence at The Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, a
guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and the first senior international
fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv
University.

From 1986-1991 he served as chairman of the Board of Overseers for the Harry
S. Truman Research Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is
currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Middle East
Institute, the American Academy of Diplomacy, the National Academy of Public
Administration, and numerous other foreign policy, environmental and public
affairs organizations.

In addition to Lewis, previous Linowitz professors have included Roy Atherton,
former U.S. ambassador to Egypt; Richard N. Haass, director of National
Security Programs and senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations;
Stephen Bosworth, president of the U.S. Japan Foundation and former U.S.
ambassador to the Philippines; Harry G. Barnes, Jr., U.S. former ambassador to
Chile, India and Romania; and Gideon Rafael, former Israeli ambassador to the
United Kingdom and Belgium, and permanent representative to the United
Nations.

The Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs was
established in 1986. It is named in honor of a 1935 Hamilton graduate who
served as ambassador to the Organization of American States, chairman of the
board of Xerox and co-negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties. He was
President Carter's representative in the Middle East negotiations from 1979 to
1981.

Ambssador Linowitz is a senior partner in the international law firm of
Coudert Brothers and the author of The Betrayed Profession, a critical
look at the legal profession..